Jamie Thingelstad

Writer of The Weekly Thing. Explorer of tech, the open web, AI, and a good escape room. Minneapolis is home.

Watt Window was my other demo highlight from Minnedemo. Combination of hardware and software to monitor industrial motors and increase efficiency. This is a real-world use case for how you can lower the carbon footprint of a plant. And, reliably predict equipment failures! Impressive!

A presenter at a laptop on stage, with an overhead camera projecting a DIN rail of wired terminal blocks onto a large screen. The presenter talks beside a projected web dashboard of circular gauges showing amps, volts, kWh and dollar costs per motor.

Beastbox was an amazing demo at Minnedemo. The engineering required to do signal detection in about 10ms to keep the time from beatboxing with your mouth to the audio being triggered is impressive.

I realized I could probably get a data point I’ve never been able to from WT Builder: how long does it take for me to create the Weekly Thing? Turns out I can now answer that. Additionally, I can now evaluate features on how they improve my workflow and time required.

Table comparing WT350 and WT351: 2 h 52 m vs 2 h 25 m to publish, about 3 h 50 m vs 2 h 30 m total, 22 vs 18 links.

I used some of my Claude Cloud credits to put in place a truly secure pipeline for Elixir Collector. Starting at v3.0.0 all releases are signed using a private key that I manage and the entire pipeline is signed all the way to ingestion. It also got safety improvements in the auto-update process.

Dark dashboard listing five collectors run by King Thing, four marked signed and one unverified, beside an ASCII key fingerprint. Detail page for the Mini P.E.K.K.A collector on jamie-mac, v3.0.4, with binary hash, trusted key, and Drain and Stage buttons.